Drumbeats
- Free allowance
- Free plan, $0 forever with no credit card: 200K beats a month, 50 monitors, 3 projects, a 1-minute minimum interval, a ping retention of 250, a maximum payload of 100 KB, unlimited team seats and 8 alert channels; the REST API and the MCP server are part of every plan, Free included
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota200K beats per month, 50 monitors and 3 projects on Free
- Evidence
- documented16 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-02checked 2026-11-01 (live); stale on 2026-12-02
| Free tier | Free plan, $0 forever with no credit card: 200K beats a month, 50 monitors, 3 projects, a 1-minute minimum interval, a ping retention of 250, a maximum payload of 100 KB, unlimited team seats and 8 alert channels; the REST API and the MCP server are part of every plan, Free included unit requests; metered on request-count; The unit is the beat, a measure of activity: the pricing page converts 200K beats into 23 cron jobs running every 5 minutes or 5 uptime monitors checked every minute, and bills activity instead of monitor count. The vocabulary has no beats term, so requests is the nearest. Advanced status pages, 30-second checks and overage start on Pro. |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
A Free project gets a public page for every monitor; advanced status pages are not part of Free. |
| Binding | volume-quota The 200K monthly beats are reached before the 50-monitor cap by checks that run every minute, so activity binds before monitor count. |
| Identity | email The sign-up page states no credit card is required and asks for an email address and a password of at least 8 characters, then emails a one-time verification code; Google and other sign-in options appear under Or continue with. |
| Egress | not applicable: an inbound ping receiver and outbound uptime checker; monitors, incidents and channels are read through the REST API |
| Per-object cap | 100 KB maximum payload per ping on Free, against 1 MB on Pro |
| Retention | a ping retention of 250 on Free, against 1,000 on Pro, printed without a unit |
| Interface | rest A Ping API at api.drumbeats.io/v1/ping/MONITOR-ID takes plain HTTP requests with no key, the monitor ID being the credential; a REST API for monitors, incidents, projects, notification channels and groups takes an X-API-Key header; an MCP server connects Claude, Cursor, VS Code and other MCP clients. endpoint: https://api.drumbeats.io/v1/ping/ |
| Tooling | curl or any HTTP client against the Ping API and the REST API, integration guides for common stacks, an MCP server and the web app |
| Composes with | Dead man's switch for the scheduled jobs of free hosts with one curl at the end of a job, plus 1-minute uptime checks and a public page for every monitor. |
| Reliability | what happens past 200K beats on Free is unverified: the pricing page states only that overage starts on Pro |
| Notes | Pro is USD 20 a month with 1M beats included, unlimited monitors, a 1 MB maximum payload and a 30-second minimum interval. |
| Evidence note | documented Plan limits, the API surface and the sign-up form are quoted from first-party pages. No account was opened, so the behaviour past the monthly beats is unverified: behind a sign-up. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 16
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-01 | drumbeats.io/pricing | the plan is free for 50 monitors with no credit card |
| 2026-11-01 | drumbeats.io/pricing | the Free plan costs $0 forever |
| 2026-11-01 | drumbeats.io/pricing | Free has 200K beats a month, 50 monitors, 3 projects, a 1-minute minimum interval, a ping retention of 250, a 100 KB payload, unlimited seats and 8 alert channels |
| 2026-11-01 | drumbeats.io/pricing | 200K beats cover 23 cron jobs every 5 minutes and 5 uptime monitors checked every minute |
| 2026-11-01 | drumbeats.io/pricing | advanced status pages, 30-second checks and overage start on Pro |
| 2026-11-01 | drumbeats.io/pricing | the REST API and MCP server are part of every plan including Free |
| 2026-11-01 | drumbeats.io/pricing | a Free account has no trial window and no reduced version of the listed features |
| 2026-11-01 | drumbeats.io/pricing | a Free project still gets a public page for every monitor |
| 2026-11-01 | drumbeats.io/pricing | Pro costs $20 a month with 1M beats included and unlimited monitors |
| 2026-11-01 | drumbeats.io/pricing | Pro has a ping retention of 1,000, a 1 MB maximum payload and a 30-second minimum interval |
| 2026-11-01 | drumbeats.io/docs | a ping is one curl to api.drumbeats.io with no SDK, agent or API key |
| 2026-11-01 | drumbeats.io/docs | the REST API covers monitors, incidents, projects, channels and groups and takes an X-API-Key header |
| 2026-11-01 | drumbeats.io/docs | part of the text of Interface, above |
| 2026-11-01 | drumbeats.io/register | the sign-up page states no credit card is required |
| 2026-11-01 | drumbeats.io/register | the sign-up form asks for an email, a password and a confirmation, and emails a one-time verification code |
| 2026-11-01 | drumbeats.io/register | the sign-up sends a one-time verification email |